I took Tanya to Santa Anita. The current sensation was a 16 year old jockey still riding with his 5 pound bug advantage. He was from the east and was riding at Santa Anita for the first...

The next day we picked up some of her stuff at this motel. There was a little dark guy in there with a wart on the side of his nose. He looked dangerous. Hector was sitting on the edge ...

at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table

I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift

as the spirit wanes the form

the elephants are caked with mud a… and the rhinos don’t move the zebras are stupid dead stems and the lions don’t roar the lions don’t care

had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a

see this poem? was written without drinking. don’t need to drink to write.

you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…

I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother

I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...

I was the last one off the plane and there was Joanna Dover. “Joanna, let’s have a Bloody Mary while we wait for my baggage. Oh hell, I don’t have any baggage. But let’s have a Bloody M...

There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...

the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,